On July 14, law-enforcement agencies are conducting 183 searches in premises owned by ex-minister of income and taxes Oleksandr Klymenko, including in the Gulliver shopping and entertainment center in Kyiv, said Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios has said.
“The main military prosecutor’s office, together with the Protection Department of the National Police and the KORD rapid response special unit, are conducting ‘the second wave’ of searches as part of the inquiry into the Yanukovych-Klymenko criminal gang. Some 183 searches are now carried out in the premises belonging to ex-minister Klymenko, including the Gulliver office center several floors of which are the property of the ex-minister and members of his family,” Matios wrote on the Facebook page.
At the same time, the chief military prosecutor assured that the work of journalists of Radio Vesti, which is part of Klymenko Media Holding, and the Unison group of companies, where searches are also held, hasn’t been interrupted.
He promised to give more detailed information at a joint briefing with Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
Earlier, the Vesti Media Holding reported searches in their office.
Vesti Ukraine Media Holding is associated with Klymenko, who was minister of income and tax during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych and then fled the country.
The holding includes, Vesti newspaper and Radio Vesti.
According to information on the holding’s website, the owner of 99 percent of ES Production Group LLC at the end of 2015 was IG Media Ukraine LLC, which, in turn, was 100 percent owned by Media Holding Vesti Ukraine Ltd (Cyprus). The owner of 80 percent in the Cypriot company was resident of Avdiyivka Denys Mozgovy, while another 20 percent was controlled by Tetiana Oleksandrova from Donetsk through Nederman Limited.
